Dreamin' was recorded to tape in July last year with the help
of The Low Anthem’s Jeff Prystowsky. The band moved away from the
inclusion of digitally programmed drums and Rhodes piano for Dreamin’, opting instead for a warmer, more organic aesthetic and a starker performance. Most of the songs on Dreamin’
took shape while Dan Wriggins (vocals and guitar) and Mike Cormier
(drums) worked and lived as groundskeepers at a private estate in
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, frequently driving into Philadelphia for shows
and friends. The record is set both in the country and the city –
community, peacefulness, and isolation can all be heard and felt
throughout the superb new record.

This morning, GoldFlakePaint premiered Dreamin's first single, "Clairvoyant." Here's some of what GoldFlakePaint's Tom Johnson had to say:

“Unsettling and gorgeous...” - All Music Guide"Boduf Songs makes some of the duskiest, autumnal and beautiful loner psychedelia." - Stereogum“Boduf Songs has always been a space for contemplation.” - Pitchfork

Boduf Songs’ seventh album and first on Orindal Records marks the Ohio-via-Southampton home recording project’s most detailed production yet, voyaging into deeper recesses than ever before. Abyss Versions will see the light of day on October 4, 2019.

Mat Sweet, the solitary figure behind Boduf Songs, has spent the better part of fifteen years cultivating an idiosyncratic strain of quiet menace, augmenting library-hushed vocals and brooding guitars with psychedelic flourishes from processed loops, field recordings, and distant, subliminal atmospheres.

Subtly acknowledging Boduf Songs’ beginnings, Abyss Versions echoes motifs from the first Boduf Songs album (2005’s Boduf Songs
on Kranky Records), forming its own secret, circular path,
encapsulating the journey from there to here. Sweet’s background in doom
metal still seeps into the quiet, pensive world of
Boduf Songs via mood
and tone, balanced by shades of the fingerpicking mysticism of his
first four albums. As always, the music of
Boduf Songs is steeped in a
palpable sense of darkness and dread, offset by a gorgeous and discreet
sonic beauty. There is much prettiness here, albeit within an
inescapably unsettling frame.

Matt Bachmann & his band performed a new, unreleased song called "Apple Pie" for a recent Mount Misery video session. "Apple Pie" was a live favorite at the Orindal Records Brooklyn showcase at back in June, & we're grateful that the song has been documented so beautifully! Check it out!

On August 30, Orindal Records will release Kleinmeister, the new album by Brattleboro, VT experimental pop/folk singer & songwriter Ruth Garbus. Kleinmeister is available for pre-order on vinyl, compact disc & digital formats HERE.

This morning, Various Small Flames premiered "Strash," the lead-off track from Kleinmeister, & its accompanying music video, directed by Joey Agresta.

Various Small Flames' Jon Doyle writes:

"Her fifth solo record, Kleinmeister
represents the perfection of Garbus’s esoteric art. Recorded with
Travis Laplante and with production and mixing by Ryan Power, Kleinmeister is
altogether more vivid than previous releases, and Garbus herself has
worked to develop her own sound too—spending two years under the
tutelage of opera singer Jim Anderson to fully realise her mezzo soprano
vocal range.

Far from dampening Ruth Garbus’s idiosyncratic vision, the studio
recording and professional training elevate it to a higher plane,
lending a sanctified edge to the singular tone. Poetic and often
bizarre, Kleinmeister is an album where light and dark are
marbled into intricate swirls, the lasting emotion not anything as
simple as happy or sad but rather a kind of extra-personal awe, that of
standing before the great overwhelming forces of the world and still
having to remember to breathe."

Known from work in Mega Bog and Big Eater — the one and only Matt
Bachmann delivers the world debut of the "To Be in Love" video courtesy
of Slopehouse Production's Adam Gundersheimer, Vanessa Haddad, Elena
Balara and Alex Hartley. Much like the oeuvre of Bachmann’s work; “To Be
in Love” strikes at those closely guarded places of the heart and
spirit where intimate expressions are expressed in earnest and sublime
manners. It’s a song that beautifully wraps together the entire range of
joy, melancholy, hopefulness, heart-break and that abandon of
helplessness that goes hand in hand with being in the throes of the
inertia of amour (that is something greater than you, the other person
and perhaps something greater than the bond itself).